Necktie-holder



(No Model.)

B.K.HAYNBS.

NEGKTIE HOLDER. No. 317,354. Patented May 5, 1885'l www UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE EDGAR n. HAYNES, on EoSToN, MASSACHUSETTS.

NECKTIE-HOLDER.

SSPECIFIC'ATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 317,354, dated May 5, 1885.

(No model.)

.To @ZZ whom, it may concern.-

Beit known that I, EDGAR K. HAYNES, of Boston, county of Suffolk, State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Necktie-Holders, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a speciiieatiomlike letters on the drawings representing like parts.

My invention has for its object to producea durable and inexpensive device for attaching a necktie to a collar button or stud.

Neckties have been provided with metal eyes or loops to engage the stud or button; but as heretofore made they have had too rigid a connection with the necktie, rendering it very difficult to engage them properly with the button.

My invention consists in a fastener composed of spring-wire fastened to the necktie and having an eye or loop to engage the button, the said eye being made at the end of a long neck connected by long spring-arms with the necktie, so that the eye may be drawn out from the necktie and will then move about freely, making it easy to apply it to the collar-button.

My improved fastener has equal freedom of movement with a loop of elastic cord,and is of far greater strength and durability, so that it will outwear the remainder of the necktie, while the elastic cords are frequently broken and have to be renewed.

Figure lis a front elevation of a necktie shield 0r frame provided with a fastener embodying this invention Fig. 2, a transverse vertical section thereof, and Fig. 3 a modification showing a shield of different shape and springarms to correspondtherewith.

The holder is composed of a single piece of spring-wire bent at its middle to form a loop or eye, c, properly shaped to engage a button or stud of usual construction. The wire extending from the loop c forms a long straight neck,b, beyond which the wire is bent to form long spring-arms c, fastened at their ends to the usual shield or frame-piece, 61,01' the necktie which is to engage the collar. The loop a has to be at the rear side of the shield d,0r neXt the wearer, and the neck Z preferably passes through a hole or eyelet, c, in the shield cl, the remainder of the fastener being at the front of the Shield and concealed by the material of the necktie. The spring-arms c are long, and

preferably curved around at one side of the shield and extended across and fastened at the other side of the shield, thus permitting the loop a t0 be drawn upward until it is above the top of the shield, thus rendering it perfectly easy to apply it to the button, and the said springs operating independently to permit the neck b to tip or have an angular as well as longitudinal movement, thus enabling the loop c to be moved in any direction with the same facility as an elastic cord. Then the eye a has been engaged with the button, the shield is placed within the fold of the collar, and the spring-arms c will draw the loop c downward with an elastic pressure, forcing the shield upward until properly engaged with the collar. The eyelet e constitutes a guide for the longitudinal movement of the neck b of the fastener.

The Spring-arms c may be of various dif-` ferent shapes, according to the kind of necktie or the shape of the shield d, it being essential only that they shall be of sufficient length to permit the loop c to be drawn up the full length of the-neck b without destroying the elasticity of the said arms; and the two portions ofthe wire forming the neck are preferably twisted atleast once about one another, as shown in Fig. l, so that the neck is practically a single piece, giving much greater iieXibility than when the portions ofthe wire from either side of the loop to the corresponding spring-arms are separated from one another.

AS shown in Fig. 3, the arms c have coils c to afford the requisite amount of movement within the space of the shield. The upper p0rtion of the loop a is inclined outward, as shown at 2, Fig. 2, so as not to catch in the buttonhole in unfastening the tie.

I am aware that neckties have been provided with fasteners composed of wire bent to form a button engaging loop and spring-arms,

whereby the said loop is caused to draw on the button with a yielding or elastic pressure; and I do not broadly claim such a fastener.

l. The combination ofthe shield or frame of anecktie with a fastener,consisting of springarms connected at their ends with the said shield, a neck connected with or being a continuation of the said arms,and having a longitudinal movement in a guide in the shield, and

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it button-engaging loop at the end of the seid neck, substantially as described.

2. The herein-described neoktie fastener, composed of a continuouspiece of wire formed l into two bow-shaped spring-arms, with eX- tended free ends adapted to be connected with the necktie-shield, the said arms being crossed and meeting in adj acent parallel portions constituting a slender flexible neck and againbcnt or twisted and formed into abuttonengagng 1c eye or loop, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

EDGAR IQ vHATFNES.

WWitnesses: l

Jos. l?. Livnmiomc, W. H.. SIGsToN. 

